Creel.



R. H. COOK.

CHEEL. APPLICATION man luLY 26, 1915.

Patented Apr. 25, 19116.

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R. H. COOK.

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APPLICATION FILED JULY 26| |915- Patented Apr. 25, 1916.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2- RICHARD H. COOK, OF FALL RIVER, MASSACHUSETTS.ASSIGNOR 'IO THE AMERICAN THREAD COMPANY, OF JERSEY CITY. NEW JERSEY, ACORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

CREEL.

'.'l'o all whom t may concern:

Be it known that l. RICHARD H. COOK, a citizen of the llnited States.residing at Fall River. Bristol county. Massachusetts, have inventedcertain new and useful 1mprovements in treels, of which the following isa full, clear` and exact description.'

My invention relates to improvements in creels for holding cones and thelike containing thread to be wound upon bobbins and the like. such forinstance as creeis for use upon twisters and has for its object toincrease the capacity of present twister frames: to prevent Aloss due tostoppage; to prevent the necessity ot' supplying yarn holding bobbinsbefore they are exhausted; to prevent the ends of ruiming out bobbinsfrom lashing the threads or yarns on either side, and further to permitthe adding of a further supply without stopping themachine, and to avoiddouble ply knots or adjacent. knots in the threads from any Creel.

The following is a description of an embodiment of my invention,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which.

Figure 1 shows an end view of a plurality of crecls, guide rods, watertrough and rolls. one otl the crecls being moved into a forward positionfor the purpose hereinafter stated: Fig. 2 shows a rear view of the samewith the, two creels in vertical position; Fig. 3 shows a plan view withall but one of the creels removed, that Creel being shown in section onthe. line Fig. 1.

Alieferring more particularly to the draw- 1 is the frame of a twistermachine ings,

carrying a series of bobbins provided with the ordinary spinning rings,etc.. (not. shown).

2 is one of a series of brackets supported by the frame and in turnsupporting the rod 3. constituting a support for the Creels. Thissupport carries a series of creels, the same. being movable thereon sothat they can be placed in a vertical position or can be moved to aforward position. The movenient of the crcel is preferably obtained bypivoting the base thereof upon the rod 3.

-l is the base of the Creel. movably journaledlupon the rod 3. This baseis provided with an upwardprojection 5 and the bracket isproviiddwith"van upward projection G. This upward proection (S carries aspringpressed ball or lock, which engages one of Specification ofLetters Patent.

Patented Apr. 25, 1916..

Serial No. 41,830.

two recesses T in the upward projection from the creel base, holding theCreel base in either thc horizontal position shown b v the tirst creelin Fig. 1, so that the creel is vertical, or in an inclined position asshown by the rear Creel of Fig. 1, so that the Creel will be forwardlyinclined. (.arried by the base l are'two upwardly extending rods orcarriers 8 which are connected at their upperends by a bracket 9. arbors10 attached thereto and adjustable thereon so that. they may be placedin positions determined by the length of the cones to be used. Thesearbors are provided with forwardly and rearwardly extending arms, eachof which carries means for supporting a cone thereon.

11H11 are two cones supported by the lower arbor and 12-1'2 are twocones supported by the upper arbor, these Cones being wound in anymanner so that the thread is easily unwound therefrom without requiringthe cones themselves to be revolved. Above the lower set of cones is apigtail guide 13 located between the rods 8 and preferably Carried bythe upper arbor. A. second pigtail guide 11 is carried by the upperarbor and is located at a point somewhat to therear thereof. Above theupper arbor is a pigtail 15 Carried by the bracket 9 and located betweenthe rods 8 substantially as the pigtail 13. The bracket 9 carries asecond pigtail 16 which is located to the rear somewhat in the samemanner as the pigtail 111. The pigtails 14 and 16, when looked at fromthe front of the machine, are slightly displaced so as to be on oppositesides of a vertical plane passing between the rods 8.

The cones upon the creel are so wound that their inner and outer endsare both free and exposed. lin creeling the machine, two cones areplaced upon the lower arbor, the outer end of the thread upon one Conebeing tied to the inner end of the thread upon the other cone. The freeouter end is then passed through the pigtail 13, pigtail 14 and beneaththe horizontal guide bar 17, beneath the guide bar 18 in the trough 19,over and between the rolls 20 and 21, and to the bobbin 22 after passingthrough the spinning ring (not shown). Similarly Connected bobbins areplaced upon the upper arbor, the free end of the yarn being passed Theserods are provided with through the pigtails 15 and 16 and beneath theguide rods 17-18 and through the rolls 20-21 to the bobbin 22 in asimilar manner. The pigtails 13 and 14 being each in the same relationto the vtwo cones 11 and 11', whose yarns they guide, act to guide the'yarn from one cone and then from the other without interruption. Thepigtails l5 and 1G guide the yarn from the bobbins 12-12 in a similarmanner. The pigtails 14 and l5 being in different transverse planes,guide the two threads of yarns from the two sets of bobbins so as tokeep them separate until they pass beneath the rods 17 and 19 and to therolls 20 and 21. Vhen a cone hasbeen exhausted, the yarn isautomatically taken from the second cone of the same arbor, whose outerend is connected to the cone about to be exhausted. Vhen a cone isexhausted the attendant replaces that cone by afresh cone, connectingits outer end to the inner exposed end of the remaining cone so that theoperation of the machine is not in any way interrupted dur-v ing theproviding of anew supply. The adding of a new cone is facilitated by theforward movement of the creel to which the cone is to be supplied andfor that reason the creel is provided with the capability of being movedforwardly in the manner above described. After the new cone is suppliedwith the creel in forward position, the creel is moved to its normalvertical position, as shown in Fig.A 1.

In order to increase the capacity of the machine, I alternate the arborsof adjacent creels so that the lower cones of one set of creels lie in ahorizontal plane between the horizontal planes occupied by the cones ofthe adjacent creels. This is clearly shown in Fig. 2. Byv thisalternation Iam able to accommodate as large as seven inch cones in -theseries of creels although two adjacent creels occupy only a four and ahalf inch space.

The supporting arms of the arbors have pins 23 set at an angle to theuprights so that the cones of the two arbors are inclined toward thepigtails 13-15 respectively in order that the yarn from the bobbinscarried by the arms may easily feed through those pigtails. The threadconnecting two bobbins upon one arbor should pass between the rods 8 ofits creel so that the yarn can be taken from the two bobbinssuccessively.

24 are adjusting screws.

By this construction, `as above stated, I obtain a. machine which can berun'continuously. Inasmuch as when properly operated there are no freemoving ends of yarn, and inasmuch as the threads of any one creel byreason of the described location of the pigtails 14 and 16 are kept wellapart from each v other until they pass through the rolls 20 and 21,there is no interference between the two threads from the same creel orany lashing of one thread of yarn by the free end of another. Theforward movement of the creels for providing an additional supply, doesnot interfere with the thread running froln such forwardly moved creel.A further advantage of my invention is that double knots or knots ofdouble ply are avoided.

As will be evident to those skilled in the art, my invention permits ofvarious modifications without departing from the spirit thereof or thescope of the appended claims.

lVhat I claim is:

1. In a creel the combination of a series of upwardly extending carriershaving their upper ends independently movable forwardly and rearwardlyin fixed vertical planes, a plurality of cone supporting memberssupported by each carrier one above the other, and a guide above each ofsaid members.

2. In a creel the combination of a series of upwardly extending carriersindependently movable forwardly and rearwardly in fixed vertical planes,a plurality of cone supporting pins supported by each carrier one abovethe other, said pins being on the same side of said series. those on onecarrier being at different heights from those on adjacent carriers, andsaid carriers being separated by a distance less than the diameter of afull cone, and a guide above each of said pins.

3. In a creel the combination of a series of upwardly extending carriersindependently movable forwardly and rearwardly in fixed vertical planes,a plurality of cone supporting pins supported by each carrier one abovethe other, said pins being on the same side of said series, those on onecarrier being at different heights from those on adjacent carriers, andsaid carriers being separated by a distance less than the diameter of afull cone, a guide above each of said pins, and additional pinssupported by said carriers on the other side of said series at the sameheights as their said first mentioned pins, the pins of the same heighton each carrier being inclined toward each other.

4. In a creel the combination Aof a series of upwardly extending'carriers independently movable forwardly and rearwardly in fixedvertical planes about a pivot at the lower end of each carrier, aplurality of cone supporting members supported by each carrier one abovethe other, and a guide above each of said members.

5. In a creel the combination of a series of upwardly extending carriersindepend' ently movable forwardly and rearwardly in fixed verticalplanes about a pivot at the Vlower end of each carrier, a plurality ofcone supporting members supported by each carmisdaad rier one above theother, a guide above each ot' said members, and means for locking saidcarriers in upright position.

In a twister the combination of a series or' upwardly extending carriershaving their upper ends independently movable forwardly and rearwardlyin fixed vertical planes` a plurality of cone supporting memberssupported by each carrier one above the other, a guide above each ofsaid members. and a plurality of supplemental guides carried by eachcarrier, each supplemental guide being out of line with the threadpassing from any other supplemental guide on the same carrier.

T. In a twister the combination of a series of upwardly extendingcarriers having their upper ends independently movable forwardly andrearwardly in fixed vertical planes` a plurality of cone supportingmembers supported by each carrier one above the other, a guide aboveeach member` a plurality of supplemental guides earried b v each carrierand moving forwardly and rearwardly therewith, and a fixed guide forreceiving threads from each of said supplemental guides of each carrier,each supplemental guide being out of the line connecting the othersupplemental guide and said fixed guide.

S. ln a creel the combination of a series of upwardly extending carriersindependently movable forwardly and rearwardly in fixed vertical planes,a plurality of cone supporting pins supported by each carrier one abovethe other, said pins being on the same side of said series, those on onecarrier being at different heights from those ou adjacent carriers. andsaid carriers being the upright members of the other carriers and bothacting to support each of the pins of the carrier to which they belong.

9. In a creel the combination of la series of carriers having upwardlyextending portions and at their bases rearwardly'extending portions, asupport for said carriers to which the rear ends of said rearwardlyextending portions are pivoted so as to move in vertical planes, andcone carriers mounted one above the other on said upwardly extendingportions and guides supported by said carriers above each of saidcone-oar riers. v

10. ln a creel the combination of a series ot carriers having upwardlyextending porn tions and at. their bases rearwardly extending portions,a support for said carriers to which the rear ends of said rearwardlyextending portions are pivoted so as to move 'in vertical planes, conecarriers mounted RCHARD H. (100K.

